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Amazon Linux 2 Overview

What is Amazon Linux 2?

Amazon Linux 2 AMI with Amazon Inspector Agent and Terracloudx Support is an entity that collects information from installed packages and software configuration for an Amazon EC2 instance to analyze the configuration and behavior of operating systems and applications to identify potential security exposures

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Amazon Linux 2 AMI with Amazon Inspector Agent and Terracloudx Support is an entity that collects information from installed packages and software configuration for an Amazon EC2 instance to analyze the configuration and behavior of operating systems and applications to identify potential security exposures


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Vivek Y.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
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"Amazon Linux 2 allows to optimize AWS based workloads effectively & efficiently with high security."
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Sarim J.
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What do you like best about Amazon Linux 2?

Easy to deploy, and most of the packages are available for the distro, easy to patch with AWS Systems Manager Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Linux 2?

Nothing to dislike really, I would love if AWS could put sysmon or some other monitoring tools in the base image itself Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon Linux 2 solving and how is that benefiting you?

We deploy most of our tools and sites on Amazon Linux 2 and it is very stable Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon Linux 2?

The best thing about Amazon Linux 2 is that amazon officially supports it and provides all the documentation of server configuration and software installation using Amazon Linux 2 making everything more manageable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Linux 2?

I don't like the package manager of the Amazon Linux 2. The package manager makes the software installation difficult which is not available officially in the repository. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon Linux 2 solving and how is that benefiting you?

The problem it solves is that it makes the server management, configuration and software installation very easy. It provides us time to focus on the most essential part of the business. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon Linux 2?

Amazon Linux2 is so easy to install and configure. Users can just select the machine size required and easily spin up an EC2 machine with the Linux2 as the operating system. AWS Linux2 is very convenient to install many applications like java, tomcat and also implementing cloud and docker-based applications. Linux2 operating system is very stable and has a high degree of security when running the applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Linux 2?

Amazon Linux2 is a very good operating system with many user-friendly functionalities. there is nothing to dislike Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon Linux 2 solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are using Amazon Linux2 operating system to deploy our applications. We install docker container tools to deploy our applications. Some of the applications are very stable on Linux2 operating system when compared to the windows platform, so it becomes very easy selection to use Linux2. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon Linux 2?

It is a very reliable tool and is ideal 24/7. It is also available as virtual machine images for VMware, Oracle VM VirtualBox, and Hyper-V virtualization solutions for on-premises development and testing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Linux 2?

It is a tool that has a little graphical environment, however, through command lines, it is possible to carry out all the tasks once the scripts have been defined Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Amazon Linux 2:

Choose this tool as it guarantees stability, updates and support, and addtional newer versions of popular software packages such as Python, MariaDB, Node.js, are available for installation using the Amazon Linux Extras repository. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon Linux 2 solving and how is that benefiting you?

Using containers has helped me to make very secure deployments. Aditionally Rust is an extras topic in the curated list provided by Amazon. It provides the toolchain and runtimes for Rust, the systems programming language. This topic includes the cmake build system for Rust, cargo - the rust package manager, and the LLVM based compiler toolchain for Rust Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon Linux 2?

Provides one of the best security setups that is focused and stable high performance execution environment to develop that also run cloud applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Linux 2?

First it has limitations with lack of expertise that always has price variations and General issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Amazon Linux 2:

It's easy to use and access, doesn't cost you a penny.

Secure and safe like I said e everything you need is with amazon linux 2. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon Linux 2 solving and how is that benefiting you?

Help solve and support 32 bit applications and libraries. Also provides cloud amazon linux 2based cloud desktop with GUI. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon Linux 2?

one of the Linux flavors, is easy to use and secure and efficient to develop cloud base applications and charges are not that high so cost, security and performance are the key factors one must opt this. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Linux 2?

sometime issue during package updates and installing software but these are rarely occurs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon Linux 2 solving and how is that benefiting you?

we use this VM to install multiple monitoring software and for testing websites performance and our mobi application performance Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon Linux 2?

Amazon Linux is best operating system and it is the one of the best Linux flavours i have used it is easy to use and very secure also and charges are also very low compared to other Linux flavours. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Linux 2?

Issues like updates and packages installation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Amazon Linux 2:

I would recommend Amazon Linux OS flavour for who want easy of access and better performance Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon Linux 2 solving and how is that benefiting you?

We have used this operating system for all our servers it's the best operating system for web servers and easy to use and very secure also and charges are also very low compared to other Linux flavours Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rahul K.
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What do you like best about Amazon Linux 2?

The features and the flexibilities are so amazing that I can keep on mentioning them the whole day. Starting with integration, integration with other AWS services is so easy and quick. The customer support you'll get is also very appreciable, it provides security updates and bug fixes for 5 years. The on-premises facility enables to test and deploy code very easily. Apart from this, it also provides free training for beginners. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Linux 2?

There is nothing much to dislike, but one thing that is a bit uncomfortable is it has a huge range of options in tech services, sometimes finding the appropriate option for you is some extra research work to do. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon Linux 2 solving and how is that benefiting you?

It is very useful as it supports a virtual machine and container image facility, which makes it very fast to install and use for the developers. Also, it does not take any extra charges other than the EC2 instance fees for it. The quick support, along with the free training makes it a great option to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Akarsh A.
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What do you like best about Amazon Linux 2?

I like the best part is the required softwares already in this machine when we launch by aws Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Linux 2?

Nothing is dislike about this machine because everything is okay Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon Linux 2 solving and how is that benefiting you?

No problem in this linux image and i like this because all the dependency already configured already just do some steps and everything done Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon Linux 2?

I liked the performance as well as the level of integration of Amazon Linux2 with various AWS services. We can download and use the image of Amazon Linux 2 for on-premises use as well in the virtualized environment. One of the good reasons for choosing Amazon Linux 2 is, that it comes with 5 years of worry-free support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Linux 2?

Nothing as such, I have just started using this for 5-6 months. So far it's good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon Linux 2 solving and how is that benefiting you?

Simplifying the usage and integration as well as regular scripting experience on the AWS platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.